Daily Verb Lesson: French for half-open is entrouvrir

The French for half-open is the irregular IR verb entrouvrir.

To remember this, imagine you half-open the END ROOF at the REAR of the building!Entrouvrir can also mean: to open a little, to open partway.Related words include:
- s'entrouvrir (vr) : to half-open (e.g. a door, country); to part (e.g. lips).

Verbs ending in -vrir and -frir conjugated in this way include: couvrir, découvrir, entrouvrir, offrir, ouvrir and their compounds.

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to half-open : entrouvrir Imagine you half-open the END ROOF at the REARof the building.

✔ entrouvrir is an irregular IR verb. ✔
Learn entrouvrir and it will reinforce the pattern for ALL those other irregular IR verbs. ✔
Do these verbs every day for a month and you will have a solid knowledge of the IR verbs' conjugation patterns.

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